Carl Safina was born on May 23,1955 and is an American ecologist and author of books and other writings about the human relationship with the natural world.
14 Facts About Carl Safina
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Carl Safina's books include Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace; Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; Song for the Blue Ocean; Eye of the Albatross; The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World; and others.
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Carl Safina is the founding president of the Safina Center, and is inaugural holder of the Carl Safina Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University.
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Carl Safina led campaigns to ban high-seas driftnets, to re-write US federal fisheries law, to work toward international conservation of tunas, sharks, and other fishes, and to achieve passage of a United Nations global fisheries treaty.
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Carl Safina has written about a wide array of issues and creatures of ocean and land, including tunas, salmon, sharks, sea turtles, seabirds, albatrosses, elephants, wolves, orca whales, sperm whales, dolphins, chimpanzees, macaws, forests, coral reefs, and sustainable food.
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Carl Safina's Voyage of the Turtle was a New York Times Editors' Choice.
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Carl Safina authored Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, and in 2010 published a children's book, Nina Delmar: The Great Whale Rescue.
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Carl Safina's work has been featured in National Geographic and in The New York Times and other publications.
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Carl Safina contributed a new foreword to Rachel Carson's seminal work, The Sea Around Us.
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Carl Safina is inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and president of The Carl Safina Center.
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Carl Safina has been a visiting fellow at Yale University and a senior fellow with the World Wildlife Fund.
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Carl Safina is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Pew Fellow in Marine conservation, an Utne Reader visionary, and a recipient of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo's Rabb Medal.
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Carl Safina was named among "100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century" by Audubon magazine, and featured on the Bill Moyers PBS special Earth on Edge.
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Carl Safina has been profiled on Nightline and in The New York Times.